Ben Parkinson MBE

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RIP

With all the work he does for forces charities like Pilgrim Bandits,a very well deserved award...I hope when he meets Her Madge to collect it,all the klingons & 'luvvies' who are there collecting theirs realise that,unlike them,he earnt his the hard way!

LE

LE

Absolutely the best news I have heard in a long time. An honour thoroughly deserved.

I tried to get an application for an honour for him a while back but someone had already applied.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoeller

LE

I had the honour of meeting Ben, his Mum and Step Dad when they supported a RBL function I organised back in September. Not a bad bloke for a Gunner. The image of him carrying the Olympic Torch will live long in the memory.

It's Tommy this an' Tommy that
an' "Chuck 'im out the brute",
But it's "Saviour of 'is Country,
when the guns begin to shoot.
R Kipling